Funds for Famine Relief in Nuu

We approved €5,000 to send a truck full of food to Nuu – an area where the famine has been spreading to.  Half of this amount was raised by Inishowen volunteers who recently returned from Kenya.

Our partners in Kenya say about the situation:

In Nuu it is the grandmothers, whose adult children are dead, who are minding children who are most at risk together with the children. Where there are healthy adults they will normally struggle to get food from relatives, or beg for it rather than let the chidlren starve.We saw hungry people in Mwingi scavenging for food as sacks of maize were being transported to lorries. Some of the maize grains fell from the sacks and people scavenged for the grains. Mwingi district is now being mentioned along with other districts as a famine district. Nuu is Mwingi South.

The Sisters of Mercy have donated money to the Diocese of Lodwar in Turkana as has our local parish Church. However sisters on the ground have complained that the food is not reaching Lokori, where some people have died already while others are very hungry. We will try to assist those as well.

Food is reaching the Refugee camps and the major towns in the affected areas, but not the people who live far away and who are not accessible by roads which will take cars. Kenyans from all walks of life have contributed while others continue to contribute.

The slum dwellers are also showing bigger numbers of hungry people due to the rise in costs of food.